Nostr's identity system is bitcoin taproot. It comes with a built-in distributed ledger, time chain, payments and smart contracting features. To date devs have yet to look into this, but if explored it can become a competitive advantage.
Any DB is fine. Nostr content is just a text string. And some text meta data.
Depends on your use case really. mongo should be a decent choice. sqlite for small things.
Nostr should not be used as a database, but everyone does is. Because it's convenient. But you end up hitting walls. Like no real indexes, or query language, no ability to do large follow lists, AND/OR facilities, joins, secondary keys, composite indexes etc.
You might want to have a look at #ditto which is the first relay to have a modern database. Nostr as a DB is 50 year old technology.
Not quite answering your question, but this has some links to cashu and fedimint projects.
Was very vibrant 12-18 months ago. We used to have an account called "Nostr Report" that used to show case 3-6 (sometimes more) innovations every day.
Now it's quite hard to find even one. I normally trawl through this site here and pop anything interesting on r nostr. But its increasingly difficult to find interesting stuff. Other projects invest in their devX and it pays off. Nostr didnt. Though Nostr still has quite a few payroll devs thanks to the amazing generosity of jack.
He's challenging Nvidia for the most successful tech company in the world. As he gets bigger, he gets attacked more, particularly by shit coiners, and fake bitcoiners. They want to deflect from the extremely positive news about his bitcoin strategy with anything they can. He is aiming to become a trillion dollar company. Be suspicious of any troll that ad hominems him.
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